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The claims of kinfolk : African American property and community in the nineteenth-century South

by: Penningroth, Dylan C

Publication date: 2003

Topics: États-Unis (Sud) -- Conditions économiques -- 19e siècle, États-Unis (Sud) -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle, Slaves -- Emancipation, Slaves -- Family relationships, Social conditions, Slaven (arbeid), Economic history, Property, Slaves -- Economic conditions, Southern States, USA -- Südstaaten, United States -- Minorities -- History, Ghana, Negers, Eigendom, Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century, Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century, African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century, African Americans -- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century, Slaves -- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century, African Americans -- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century, Property -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century, Slaves -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century, Property -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century, Slaves -- Emancipation -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century, Noirs américains -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle, Noirs américains -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Conditions économiques -- 19e siècle, Negros (condições socioeconômicas) -- Século 19 -- Região sul, estados unidos, Escravos -- Século 19 -- Região sul, estados unidos, Esclaves -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Conditions économiques -- 19e siècle, Noirs américains -- Terres -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle, Propriété -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle, Esclaves -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Relations familiales -- Histoire -- 19e siècle, Propriété -- Ghāna -- Histoire -- 19e siècle, Esclaves -- Affranchissement -- Ghāna -- Histoire -- 19e siècle, African Americans -- Social conditions, African Americans -- Economic conditions, African Americans -- Land tenure, Schwarze, Abschaffung, Gemeenschapszin, Negros -- Século 19 -- Região sul, estados unidos, Posse da terra -- Século 19 -- Região sul, estados unidos, Wirtschaftliche Lage, Soziale Situation, Sklaverei

Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

x, 310 pages : 25 cm

"In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the "freedom generation" of the 1870s. By focusing on relationships among blacks, as well as on the more familiar struggles between the races, Penningroth exposes a dynamic process of community and family definition. He also includes a comparative analysis of slavery and slave property ownership along the Gold Coast in West Africa, revealing significant differences between the African and American contexts."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index

Kinship and the slaves' economy from slavery to freedom -- One of the family? Abolition and social claims to property in the Gold Coast, West Africa, 1868-1930 -- Slavery's other economy -- Family and property in Southern slavery -- In and out of court -- Remaking property -- Remaking kinship and community

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